Fedora 7 Test 3 Release Notes

Your participation is VITAL for a robust set of Release Notes for the test4 and final versions of Fedora 7. This is the time for all developers, maintainers, and testers to contribute to the Release Notes. See the Process page for details and start editing at today.

This document is a highly abridged version of the release notes used during the test1, test2, and test3 phases of development. The full complement of release notes follow during the test4 phase, according to developer and community participation in the release notes process .

Welcome to Fedora 7 Test 3

Fedora is a set of projects sponsored by Red Hat and guided by the contributors. These projects are developed by a large community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open source software and standards. The central Fedora project is an operating system and platform based on Linux that is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute, now and forever.

You can help the Fedora Project community continue to improve Fedora if you file bug reports and enhancement requests. Refer to this page for more information. Thank you for your participation.

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Performance

System performance is generally slower in the test releases as compared to the general release since we enable several options that help with debugging.

System Administration

System administration tools may be modified under the testing process.

System Level Changes

Amanda

Users who upgrade from older releases need to read the amanda.conf and
amanda-client.conf man pages to learn about the the new syntax for
calling amandad, as well as edit the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda
configuration file to follow the new syntax.

Road Map And Release Schedule

Intended Audience for Test Releases

Test 1 is targeted for developers, who use it "at their own risk", and contains many bleeding edge packages.

Test 2 is for early adopters. Most things should work and we need to your help to find what is broken.

Test 3 is for early adopters. Most things should work and we need to your help to find what is broken.

Test 4 is for beta users. This is the time when we must have full community participation. Without this participation both hardware and software functionality suffers.

Quality Assurance for Test Releases

The Fedora Project has a process in place for ensuring the highest possible quality even in our test releases. Many bugs are identified, prioritized and fixed during the testing process. We also have a list of known bugs in this release. Refer to this page for more details.

Translations of Release Notes

Due to the rapidly changing nature of test releases, translations of release notes for test releases are not practical. The initial goal is to have a translation of the release notes included in the test4 release and to allow community review and correction before the general release. As always, the general release is translated following the established practices for localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n), which result in comprehensive, high-quality release notes in a variety of languages.